Export / Import Charts

Invoke Application from Mail Attachment

Images of your charts are stored in /shared area – this can be on your Device, SD card or Cloud (Dropbox, Box) – if working from BES10 inside your work perimeter you also can store in BlackBerry Work Drives:

The chart data itself is stored secure inside the sandbox in JSON fomat. You can export and send the data to another user of ‘ekkes Express Charts’ – in this case the exported data will be scrambled to secure it and attached to the mail. Composing the mail is done by Invokation Framework !

The receiver simply taps on the attachment and from a special file suffix ‘ekkes Express Charts’ is opened and the user can import the chart data.

From BlackBerry EXPRESS you can insert chart images from ‘ekkes Express Charts’ on-the-fly. For the user it looks like all is done from one application. Here’s the Workflow HowTo get the charts into your presentation.

1. From BlackBerry EXPRESS tap on the Image Icon to insert an Image into your presentation:

Without ‘ekkes Express Charts’ installed you can select from your files.

If ‘ekkes Express Charts’ is installed the Invokation Framework knows that there are two providers of Images and you get a list to select from.

2. Select ‘ekkes Express Charts’

3. Select an existing or Create a new Chart

You’re now inside the charts app and can select from a list or create a new one on-the-fly. Easiest and fastest way to create a new one is to use the ‘Easy Data Entry‘ – I wrote about it here.

4. Capture the Image

‘ekkes Express Charts’ knows that the app was invoked from BlackBerry EXPRESS and shows you the EXPRESS application icon. Tap on the Action and you’re back in your presentation.

5. Enter the title of your slide

You’re done !

Playing your presentation from BlackBerry EXPRESS you’ll see the Chart and the Slide Title as overlay:

Hint: ‘ekkes express Chart’ has a special EXPRESS – switch leaving exactly 119 px free at the bottom, so there’s no collision with the Title Overlay.

Include Images from the Cloud into your Presentation

Invoke Image Search

‘ekkes express Charts’ is not the only APP you can invoke from BlackBerry EXPRESS:

Image Search by Alexander Björck enables you to insert Images from the Cloud, per ex. Flickr.